ATI Catalyst 7.1 - Treiber für Grafikkarten von ATI

Nachdem Mitte Dezember ATI und erst vor wenigen Tagen ASUS, Beta-Versionen des Catalyst-Treibers in der Version 7.1 für Windows Vista veröffentlicht haben, folgte nun die fertige Version. Diese liegt allerdings leider vorerst nur für Windows XP in der 32- und 64-Bit Version sowie für die Media Center Edition vor. Diese Version - die Erste im neuen Jahr - bringt neben zahlreichen Fehlerbehebungen (siehe Changelog) vor allem Performance- Verbesserungen für Besitzer einer ATI-Grafikkarte mit CrossFire-Technik. Hierbei werden zwei getrennte Grafikkarten (X1650 XT oder X1950 Pro) zusammengeschlossen oder wie bei den Modellen der X1300- und X1600 Serie direkt mit zwei GPUs versehen und über einen PCI-Express-Bus angesteuert.

Der Alternate Frame Rendering Modus (AFR), der dafür sorgt, dass die Last gleichmäßig auf beide GPUs verteilt wird, ist nun standardmäßig aktiviert. Daher ist mit einer eine Performance-Verbesserung bei allen Programmen zu rechnen, die sich dieser Technik bedienen.

Wie immer wurde auch die Performance in einigen Spielen verbessert, darunter Desperados 2, Rome: Total War, Sniper Elite und Splinter Cell Double Agent.

Für Linux-Basierte x86 Systeme liegen ebenfalls neue Treiber vor. Neu hierbei sind vor allem die Unterstützung für den Linux Kernel 2.6.19 und für X.Org 7.2.

Nachfolgend die komplette Liste der Änderungen in dieser Version:

ATI Catalyst 7.1 Changelog anzeigen

• Desperados 2: The game no longer fails to play and display an error in atioglxx.dll when AA is enabled.
• Rome: Total War: Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on an AMD Dual Core or Intel Dual core system containing an ATI X1800 series product.
• Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with a Radeon™ X1600 series installed no longer results in texture corruption being noticed.
• Splinter Cell Double Agent: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game with AA enabled.
• X-29:Launching an X-29 application on a system containing an ATI display adapter no longer results in an error message being displayed.
• During video playback, DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is now available when CrossFire mode is enabled.
• Attempting to maximize an OpenGL application window no longer results in either the OpenGL window maximizing slowly or the system failing to respond.
• Clicking on the Restore Factory Defaults button found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center™->TV Properties no longer results in the TV position failing to be restored to the factory defaults.
• Setting the display panel attributes to Scale Image to Full Panel Size, followed by entering an S3 state no longer results in the desktop failing to resume to a full screen mode.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™: Connecting an HDTV or DFP display device no longer results in some of the HDTV formats being listed twice in the ATI Catalyst Control Center™->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support: Adding custom formats to the 1080i and attempting to remove those custom formats no longer results in the formats failing to removed.
• Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the Monitor and Digital Panel Properties found in the Contents section of the Help no longer results in a message indicating that the page cannot be displayed.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™: Slow response is no longer noticed after running the Full Screen 3D demo found in the Color aspect page of the ATI Catalyst Control Center™.
• The Force TV Detection is no longer available for activation on systems that do not have a TV connected to it.
• MCE no longer fails when scanning channels or when switching from digital channels to analog.
• The error messages "This South Bridge Driver is no longer compatible with the hardware installed on this system" and "Please wait while detecting hardware" are now localized for the Japanese version of Windows XP.
• A message indicating that the record operation has failed is no longer displayed when attempting to record an AVI file in VGA mode.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™->Help: Clicking on the Monitor and Digital Panel Properties found in the Contents section of the Help no longer results in a message indicating that the page cannot be displayed.
• Setting the display panel attributes to Scale Image to Full Panel Size, followed by entering an S3 state no longer results in the desktop failing to resume to a full screen mode.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support: Adding custom formats to the 1080i and attempting to remove those custom formats no longer results in the formats failing to removed.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™->CrossFire™: Attempting to resume from a standby state no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Radeon™ X19x0 CrossFire™ Edition series of product.
• Attempting to maximize an OpenGL application window no longer results in either the OpenGL window maximizing slowly or the system failing to respond.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™: Connecting an HDTV or DFP display device no longer results in some of the HDTV formats being listed twice in the ATI Catalyst Control Center™->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support.
• Clicking on the Restore Factory Defaults button found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center™->TV Properties no longer results in the TV position failing to be restored to the factory defaults.
• Color corruption is no longer noticed when changing the display resolution when connecting a SDVO display device to an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series product.
• SuperAA mode is now enabled on Intel 965 boards.
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™->CrossFire™: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in a white display image being displayed when using a CRT and DFP display device.
• Enabling CrossFire no longer results in display corruption being noticed when playing certain 3D games such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 and Madden Football.

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